Well, lets kick out Nebraska and take in UC and hope they get invited for membership to AAU.

I forgot about the AAU accreditation. However, that is hardly the only significant metric to quantify academic stature and research (I'm not arguing that UC should/should have been brought into the BIG, just that they are a respectable research institute, especially when compared to the SEC and others, for example).

It is interesting (sad?), that both the SEC and Big12 only have 4 (I may have miscounted, dont shoot me if I cant count right) schools that are accredited by the AAU.

"Over the weekend, four members of the University of Cincinnati football program were involved in an unfortunate incident that resulted in one arrest and three citations. We have higher expectations of everyone within our football program and there will be consequences for those actions," Tuberville said in a statement.

"Alex Thomas was arrested by the Cincinnati Police Department and charged with obstruction after running from the scene. In accordance with my team rules, he will not be eligible to participate in a game until his legal matter is completely resolved. He has a preliminary court date on Oct. 14 so he will miss at least four games and possibly more.

"Three other players, Ey'Shawn McClain, Leviticus Payne and Hosey Williams, were cited for minor misdemeanors and they have been disciplined for their involvement in the incident. They remain on our active roster.

"This kind of behavior is not acceptable and not indicative of the UC football program. Moving forward, we will continue to educate our players on making good decisions and being great representatives of the University."

Looks like only the freshman, non-starter Thomas will be the only one suspended.

I would think that even with multi-year scholarships, there must, or at least there should, be some exclusion criteria. Such as following some 'moral code' (whatever that is) or something that would void the renewal of any given athletic scholarship as there is with academic scholarships (ie., maintaining 3.0 GPA, etc.).

Of course, those same posters almost always predict a Hokie victory this weekend, but it's Hokie site, so to be expected.

I read through a few of their threads, including the one you mentioned... they are really a confident bunch that are convinced that they are going to win Saturday. Amazing what a win over a terrible D1 team will do to fan bases psyche.

Yeah, that is what I ended up doing was 'upgrading' to XTRA from CHOICE. That'll teach me... shoulda done the whole thing on their website to begin with (somehow I thought it'd be easier if I called them). As a sidenote, the DirectTV person was really really nice and helpful (FYI for those of you who are customers of the worse cable conglomerate with equally terrible customer service on Earth [Time Warner, et al.]) , but did ask me too many times if I was sure I didnt want Starz etc.

As great as that loss was, I really really hope I'm wrong here, but I feel like the skunk weasels are going to punish App State for what happened a few years ago. Dear God, let me be wrong, because another loss to App St would be incredible.

Wish I could upvote this. Just got off the phone with DirectTV and that was essentially my conversation with them. I think I said 'no' at least 17 times to their onslaught of offers that I do not want.

As far as the sexual assaults, he (Derrick Washington) was never charged with any crimes, thus no need for suspension or punishment (though, the circumstances do sound very very suspect and the school failed to properly report the sexual assault charges as required by Title IX). As far as the two assault cases, he was charged and served jail time.

Same. In fact, I think this year may play out more like 2012 than it will the 2011 season in regards to how close games will unnecessarily be in the 4th quarter. And THAT is where J.T. (Juice Time?) will either succeed or fail.